Actualy only seven of the locks are functional, after the seventh you are diverted across
the River Orb via the Pont Canal (which the British Times newspaper once described as "a Roman aqueduct"!) to the double depth lock which lowers
you into the port of Béziers. The eighth and ninth locks can still be seen on the original route of the canal, they lowered you into the River Orb and
you rejoined the Midi Canal just below the port of Béziers.